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Pescara Cathedral

is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the Via D'Annunzio in the city of Pescara.The cathedral, dedicated to Saint Cetteus, patron saint of Pescara, has been the seat of the Archbishop of Pescara-Penne since the creation of the archdiocese in 1982.The present Romanesque Revival building, originally called the Tempio della Conciliazione ("Temple of Conciliation"), was constructed in the 1930s, replacing the medieval church of San Cetteo.The construction of the present church was linked with the wave of intensive building activity that accompanied the creation of the city and province of Pescara in 1927.The medieval church of St. Cetteus (Italian: Chiesa di San Cetteo) that formerly stood on the site had fallen into such disrepair that it was demolished (a few traces of the old building can be seen on the pavement opposite).The construction of the new church was vigorously promoted by the writer Gabriele D'Annunzio, who had been baptised in the demolished church, and who was a generous donor to the project.

Cathedral of St. Cetteo

is a church in the city of Pescara, located in Via D'Annunzio and dedicated to St. Cetteo , the patron saint of the city.The original name of the building, the Temple of Reconciliation, is related to the arrangement of fascist Italy with the Catholic Church.Its design is close to ' neo-Romanesque architecture.The church is linked to the building in the city intensified after the establishment of the province of Pescara of 1927 : the old church of San Cetteo located in the area and reduced in a poor state was demolished to make way for new (they are to note the remains of the earlier building on the sidewalk in front of the church).The construction of the new church was strongly desired by Gabriele d'Annunzio , who also started their own financial funds.D Annunzio consulted with the architect Cesare Bazzani , and wanted to find a place in this church for burial mother.The work came to an end in 1939 , but the facade had to be reconstructed even after the events of World War II.

Museum House of Gabriele D'Annunzio

The museum, housed on the first floor of the birthplace of Gabriele D'Annunzio, is composed of nine rooms and stores furnishings, antique furniture and objects of the writer and his family.The room is dedicated to children of D'Annunzio and contains some information panels with photographs and quotations from his works, in addition to the baccalaureate degree at the Royal Cicognini boarding school in Prato ( 1881 ), the decree of appointment to Mayor Francis Paul Rapagnetta -D 'Annunzio for the three-year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine - 1881st and the certificate of honorary citizenship to D'Annunzio of Chieti by the municipality at the first play of the "Daughter of Iorio" ( 1904 ).

Museum of the people of Abruzzo

The museum is housed in the premises of the fort remained cinquesecentesca of Pescara, coupled with the Bourbons in Bath eighteenth century, at the time of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, in the basement used as a "penal servitude" for political prisoners and patriots Abruzzo.He was born on actual museum in 1973, when the exhibitions were exhibited in the lower floor of the Birthplace Museum Gabriele D'Annunzio.In 1982, the majority of the assets donated to the town of Pescara, which on 13 March 1998 the museum opened in its present location.

Media museum

is a museum of Pescara.Contains a collection of posters, newspaper articles, photos, paintings, panels and multimedia content about the film and theater, in connection with Flaiano to Gabriele D'Annunzio, to Basilio Cascella or Flaiano Award.Besides being a museum, is also a public video library.It is housed in the 'former court of Pescara.

Fish Museum

is a museum of Pescara.Born in the 50s by the will of William Pepper, a doctor of veterinary medicine with a passion for the sea, is beginning a small collection of tools and of any particular specimen of marine animal.In 1981 it is reopened to the public as a museum.Today, after many years of closure, is open to the public one section from 2008, since it incorporates the work of expansion envisaged. Recently, in fact, it was predicted in the transfer 'adjacent former Institute "U. Di Marzio".Section Marine Protected Animals "Carmine Di Silvestro", which still keeps several specimens of sea turtles and a collection of skeletons of cetaceans in the Mediterranean, including a sample of sperm , and one fin whale.

Museum of Modern Art Victory Column

is a museum of Pescara.Located in the central area of the city, is housed in the building that were located some faculties of the University 'Gabriele D'Annunzio', then transferred to Pindar Avenue.The headquarters was built in the fifties to the design of Eugenio Montuori.The museum, after the rearrangement of interior space, designed by architect Gaetano Colleluori, there was inaugurated in 2002, with an exhibition dedicated to Marc Chagall.It is dedicated to Vittoria Colonna, friend of Michelangelo's Roman noblewoman.It houses a permanent collection of works by authors such as Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Guttuso, Cascella, Francesco Paolo Michetti, Giuseppe Misticoni, and temporary exhibitions.

Civic Museum Basilio Cascella

is a museum of Pescara.The building, located at the bottom of the Acacia Street, was transferred from the municipality as Basilio Cascella , between the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth century , as long as you opened a graphic arts lab.Thus was born an artistic school that attracted a large number of young people and became an important nucleus for the local culture and national level.In 1966 the laboratory was transferred to the municipality of Pescara, which transformed it into a museum in 1975.Today it houses works by Basilio Cascella, sons Thomas, Michael, Joachim and his sons Thomas, Andrew and Peter.Also retains some original period furniture, sketches, ceramics, stone lithographs, sketches and postcards.

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